"Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere."

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Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.1, Courier Corporation

A. E. Waite

#Mind Your Own Business Quotes #Aptitude Quotes #Spheres Quotes

“A [spatial, temporal] work had only to be exhibited in a gallery and then written about and reproduced as a photograph in an art magazine. Then this record of the no longer extant installation, along with accretions of information after the fact, became the basis for its fame, and to a large extent its economic value.”
“I am born hungry. Ravenous. I want to eat the world, and I can never be satiated.”
“I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness.”

Source : "Portrait of the artist: Marcus Brigstocke, comedian". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2007.
“I suppose any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold onto it long enough.”
“All the men on my staff can type.”
“We live what we know. If we believe the universe and ourselves to be mechanical, we will live mechanically.”
“Without [hope and] confidence in a cause, there is no action. Ignorance may be enlightened, superstition wiped out; intolerance may become tolerant, and hate be changed into love; ideas may be quickened, intelligence widened, and men's hearts may be ennobled; but from pessimism which can see nothing but gloomy visions nothing is to be expected.”
“One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.”

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